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The dark matter of terrorism / Dallas Boyd and James Scouras.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2010Subject(s): In: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Vol 33 No 12, December 2010, pp.1124-1139 (114)Summary: Risk analysis is widely used to assess terrorist threats, but it does not usually take account of the consequences arising from states' reactions to terror attacks. This article argues that such reactions (which can be far more wide-reaching than the original attacks) should be included in risk analysis, as should the possiblity that attack perpetrators consider potential reactions when planning attacks. States should avoid counterproductive reactions including unintentionally furthering an attackers aims, and instead focus on improving public morale (the British war time Blitz spirit is mentioned).
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Risk analysis is widely used to assess terrorist threats, but it does not usually take account of the consequences arising from states' reactions to terror attacks. This article argues that such reactions (which can be far more wide-reaching than the original attacks) should be included in risk analysis, as should the possiblity that attack perpetrators consider potential reactions when planning attacks. States should avoid counterproductive reactions including unintentionally furthering an attackers aims, and instead focus on improving public morale (the British war time Blitz spirit is mentioned).

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